When teens make the mainstream news, it's often as victims or perpetrators of crimes. But most of the news about young people is good. What Kids Can Do reports on young people around the country who were hard at work in their communities?—helping scientists predict earthquakes in Oregon, mapping Hartford?’s abandoned houses, pouring sidewalks in Idaho, outfitting classrooms with computers in Mississippi or testing the doors, locks and intercoms in public housing in the Bronx.
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